Two Boys, Aged 12 and 15 Caught with 200,000 Meth Pills in Phan Chiang Rai
Pol Col Charan Roengtham, deputy chief of Chiang Rai police, shows a package of speed pills with the new logo during a media briefing on Thursday (Photo by Chinpat Chaimon).
PHAN Pol Col Charan Roengtham, Deputy Chief of Chiang Rai police, told reporters at a media briefing that two boys aged 12 and 15 years were arrested for possession of 200,000 methamphetamine pills or ice after a inter-provincial bus was stopped at the Phan district, police checkpoint.
Pol Col Charan Roengtham,said Phan District Police stopped the inter-provincial bus travelling from Mae Sai to Bangkok and while searching the bus the officers noticed the two young boys acting suspiciously.
When officers checked their bags,they found 100 packages of speed pills, each containing 2,000 tablets, and a small plastic bag containing 350 grams of crystal methamphetamine hidden in the baggage of the two young boys.
100 packages bearing a new logo and containing 200,000 speed pills were seized from the bags of two boys during a search of a Bangkok-bound tour bus in Chiang Rais Phan district. (Photo by Chinpat Chaimon)
Police said the packages were stamped with a prominent car makers logo. It is the first time police have seized drugs packaged with this stamp, Pol Col Charan Roengtham, said.
The two young boys told police they were hired by two men, only identified as Art and Boy, to pick up the two bags at Chiang Rai bus terminal 2 and deliver them to the main bus terminal in Bangkok.
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